Larissa Brewer-García holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include colonial Latin American and early modern Caribbean cultural productions, representations of the African diaspora in the early modern Atlantic and Pacific, and notions of human differences and hierarchies in early modern visual and written texts. Her dissertation, "Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada," examines the influence of black interpreters and go-betweens in the creation and circulation of notions of blackness in texts from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latin America. She has published articles in the Colonial Latin American Review and Cuadernos del Centro Interdisciplinario de Literatura Hispanoamericana, and she recently completed, with Barbara Fuchs and Aaron Ilika, The Abencerraje and "Ozmin and Daraja," a translation and critical introduction to two Spanish maurophile novellas (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). At Princeton, she teaches courses affiliated with Spanish and Portuguese, African American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Latin American Studies. After completing the Cotsen postdoctoral fellowship in Race and Ethnicity Studies at Princeton, she will join the faculty of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.